Show Boat (1936)
Show Boat (1936)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Irene Dunne
Magnolia Hawkes
Allan Jones
Gaylord Ravenal
Charles Winninger
Cap'n Andy Hawkes
Paul Robeson
Joe
Helen Morgan
Julie LaVerne
Helen Westley
Parthenia 'Parthy' Hawkes
Queenie Smith
Ellie May Chipley
Sammy White
Frank Schultz
Donald Cook
Steve Baker
Hattie McDaniel
Queenie
Francis X. Mahoney
Rubber Face
Marilyn Knowlden
Kim as a Child
Sunnie O'Dea
Kim - at Sixteen
Arthur Hohl
Pete
Charles Middleton
Sheriff Ike Vallon
Clarence Muse
Sam
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Boonville man speaking film's first line
J. Farrell MacDonald
Windy MacLaine
Ann Bupp
(uncredited)
James Whale
Director
Edna Ferber
Novel
Oscar Hammerstein II
Theatre Play / Screenplay / Lyricist
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer
John J. Mescall
Director of Photography
Bernard W. Burton
Editor
Ted J. Kent
Editor
Charles D. Hall
Art Direction
Doris Zinkeisen
Costume Design
Doris Carico
Hairstylist
Charles Gorman
Makeup Artist
Jack Pierce
Makeup Artist
Joseph A. McDonough
Assistant Director
Harry Mieneke
Assistant Director
Joe Torillo
Assistant Director
Gilbert Kurland
Sound Supervisor
Vera West
Costume Design
Victor Baravalle
Music Director
Jerome Kern
Music / Songs
Elspeth Dudgeon
Harry Watson
Delmar Watson
Jack Mulhall
Harold Nelson
Georgia O'Dell
Tom Ricketts
Donna Mae Roberts
Dennis O'Keefe
Edward Peil Sr.
Barbara Pepper
Lee Phelps
Bobs Watson
Louise Robinson
George H. Reed
LeRoy Prinz
Dorothy Granger
Marilyn Harris
Maidel Turner
Lois Verner
Harold Waldridge
Marguerite Warner
Billy Watson
Lloyd Whitlock
Maude Allen
William Alston
Ricca Allen
Forrest Stanley
Alma Ross
Betty Roche
Matthew Jones
Selmer Jackson
Arthur Housman
Ernest Hilliard
June Glory
Al Ferguson
Kathleen Ellis
Helen Jerome Eddy
Frank Whitson
Charles C. Wilson
Renee Whitney
E. E. Clive
Sir Arthur
Edmund Cobb
Eddy Chandler
James P. Burtis
Juanita Moore
Monte Montague
Jack Latham
Isabel La Mal
Jane Keckley
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 17, 1936
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 53m
Content RatingNR
Genres
Wiki.
Show Boat is a 1936 American romantic musical film directed by James Whale, based on the 1927 musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was adapted from the 1926 novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.Universal Pictures had filmed the part-talkie Show Boat which was released in 1929. Carl Laemmle, head of Universal, had been deeply dissatisfied with that film, and wanted to make an all-sound version of the musical. It was originally scheduled to be made in 1934, but plans to make this version with Russ Columbo as the gambler Gaylord Ravenal fell through when Columbo was killed that year in a shotgun accident, and production of the film was rescheduled. The film, with several members of the original Broadway cast, began principal photography in late 1935 and was released in 1936.
In addition to the songs retained from the stage production, Kern and Hammerstein wrote three additional songs for the film. Two of them were performed in spots previously reserved for songs from the stage production.